New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1926, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1926. 313213283333 YOUTHFUL LEATHER-PUSHERS DO THEIR STUFF IN ARMORY BOUTS——BASEBALL SEASON ENDS TOMORROW AS FOOTBA[L TAKES FIRM HOLD ON FANS — KAPLAN MAY FIGHT PHIL MCGRAW IN GOTHAM———FLOWERS LOSES DECISION ON FOUL EI I I Stssss st nssssntIsstsisinesIsIIIIILL: iy HIGH SCHOOL BOYS TAKING [( MW'MILLIN I§ CRACK AT BAY STATE TEAM §Tji[ Big STAR Springfield (mdnon War- Tnmnno\\ Afternoon lhe Bl“y Evans Comments on Him | viors Will Show Their Professional All-N i and Other Celebrities Stuff This Afternoon Britain Aggregalion‘ Against Red and Gold Tackles Adams, Also‘ (BT I CLDVANGN From Mass. VL fouinalth dempysedinle g veral years back Centre Coll provided one of the gridiron’s gre upsets by defeating Harvard. ction of husky pigskin war- Bo” MeMillin, then a member of Berkshires will in- | the Centre College team, played the re City of the Nut- | leading role in vanquishing the afternoon, in | Crimson. be 13 A coll riors from the vade the Hardwa meg State tomorrow quest of the scalps of the All-New Britain eleven. For the past two years, the visitors from North | Adams, Mass., have unsuccessfully h of that eleven is tried to put across a win over the | Millin. local gridsters, to no avail. The| When McMillin took the coaching margin of victory on both occasions ‘ job at Geneva he guaranteed a vi was slight, the locals in 1924 just over Harvard said he managin out the Bay State | d make all kinds trouble cleve 1 last year the ad- | for Cornell. to 0. In both games | He certainly made Britalns realized that | vard proved rather easy and Cor- worthy foe. The |nell was forced to the limit to win 1 b; | Worki ek with g T thoug oon may mea in the eir followers and with the thought t their school will be put into e limelight in Massachusetts, th Britain High school teamn is to put all it has into the with the Commerce High Springfield at Memorial noon at 30 o'clock. am will be at its best for the first time since the Sufficld practice game three week entire team will be eligibl game, Boasting a much heavier team in is usually the case with the Red and Gold, the boys are expected to show much against one of the leading team of Massdch S. Despite the optimistic outlook on the part of the team and its follow- ers, football authorities in Spring- field claim t m is one of the hest to represe the commercu school in many & da to m eyes of h weeks ago Geeva Col \nsylvania institution of trimmed Harvard The, “Bo" Mec- th, ' ning. New ready game school of tield this of good, ago. for Har- as for the | th they All-New had met a h Adams team s like man one touchdown. others from small communities in- | *N@ one player has heen a greater sofar as football is concerned. Play- | thorn in Harvard's football pres- ers from the town or as near the |tge than “Bo” MecMillin, first as a town as can be secured, are molded | player, now as coach together each year, and in the qulet | = of the evening, practi ions are Penn Fleven Strong held every night. This results in the | Tad a chat the other day with a club being able %9 perfect a pretly | former All-American star, who is fair aggregation that uses team |now assisting in coaching one of work, very often, to offset the fact | the leading teams In the east that it is not “loaded up” with so- | He had Ivania called stars. action a few days prior to my meet- s something to work on. Hart-| The North Adams team fs a strik- | N8 him. If tho Penn team fs a ond game | ing example of this pule. The team | 5001 as he thints it s | than Manager Champion will bring ‘\"”“-‘ e 81 to this city tomorrow, is regarded as | "¢t in the ¢ : Penn has a the best that has ever represented v obizoon North Adams. Games-played so far Wi this year, have all been placed in the : victory column, and by decisive margins, The fact that the club has rolled up nearly one hundred points Britain fresh from its victory OVEr | thig season, indicates that a power- ireentic ful offensive is one of the club's Captain Tim Claire will lcad his greatest assets. Numerous players team into the battle, playing the | on the visiting club have been here fullback position. With him in the |in past sensons, Morton, Salo, Win- backfield will be “Mopjue” Zaleskie 'chester, Shano and several others. at right half back, “Red” Matulis at | At the head of the team this year left back, and “Al” Fengler at|on the playing field is “Red” M- quarterback. In the line McGrath | Donald, who is looked upon in his h”h‘ o ':L":;"""”"“““ foot- Wil play a roving conter; Erickson | home town as being about the sweet- | e wiagor” iorcd Pro and con at and Bruce will hold down the guard | ost quaerback within the confines |8 WHEE WECUNE of the two positions, and Amselmo and Brom- | of professional football. It there is = oo Ct¥h0 berg will be stationed at the |unything that this “redhead” can't| e tackles and Zehrer aud Gordon at | 4o on the gridiron, the North Adams the ends. fans would like to know just what | Substituting in the backfield Will 4t jg pitted against each other in he “Huggs” Carlson, who came Into | yop0rrow's game will be “Jumbo™ she limelight last spring 48 a “dark [ qrosact 8 locals and “Tiny’ horse” pitcher on the nine and Louls | o0, O 18, S5 L guard. Landino who went into the backficld ir between the “boys" ought against the Norwich Free academy | o govelop into a sweet tussle. “""“‘1‘;;“ :,‘,‘:‘]L;l,‘;l"r:'?ffl,‘,(.\.k::d The All-New Britains will Ivm(‘ ::'v‘:l!v Wil {1l in at guagd or tackle the services of Thompson, the flashy | new fleld for these athlete in case of necessity, Sowka and |Juarterback in tomorrow's game. | two.months play some of Vetrano are the end sybstitutes. His return to the elub ought to have | can get as much money as for six The'feam is in excellent physical @ good cffect on the other members. | months' labor on the ball field. conditton and if it is defeated no | Thompson flashed one of his \wsx\ 1 understand major league owners | otses will he offered by the coach 8ames two wecks ago, against theare advere to having these players | he sald. All-Springfield eleven. Ordinarily a 'risk injury on the gridiron. It is L Y halfback, Thompson was mustered | rumored that Connie Mack has al- into ice as a quarterback, and ready forbidden Walter French froi Flo“'el l‘ouh and Loses | 1° VOt 00 futtined the pleking | playing. i Fight to Rosenbloom |of the conch. The game will mark | It wouldn't surprise me it major Boston, Oct. 16 (® — Maxey | the retuin to Willow Brook Park of | league contracts of tho future car- Rosenbloom 0f Brooklyn won on a | Captain Eddie Barnikow and “Big | ried a clause puiting the ban on foul last ndght from Tiger Flowers, Boy” Jack® Donlon, heroes of the | foothal middleweight champion, in 1925 crack eleven. The kickoff will | ninth round a scheduled | be at 2:30 o'clock with Harry Gins- round bout here. As the men were b son Parker and Dave Ma- both above the middleweight limit, | honey as the officials. Flowers' title was not involved. Tomorrow's lineup. At the heginning of the ninth|All-New Britains cred Flowers with | Holzheimer chin after a toe to Flow retallated with a_blow to the body W sent his opponent to the floor, The | ruled that the blow was awarded the fight to th heir n An opportunity compare the s ocals with Hartford is at hand. erd High gchool in the se season went to o play the high school of tI city. It returned to the Capital Ci with a 19 to 6 defeat. The following week the Springfield team went to nfield and took the school team into camp to the tune of a 6 to 0 score. Springfield is coming to New rong line backs, Rogers particular,” said Noss ani and my most deceptive hid- have ever seen. it is almost | 't has the den-ball attack I | From the sidelines impossible to ing the ball from the v every antics member of per- the Cornell, please note, Mixing Two Sports main topics of con- players should be permitted to en- gage in the strenuous pastime, There are quite a few college | stars in the majors who were as much at home on the gridiron a the diamond during their “rah rah” lays The popularity that football is enjoying has opened to nd professional For the stars th ten Lenglen Not Overrated Saw Mile, Lenglen, most famou: of women tennis stars, in her pro- fesstonal debut at Madison Square Garden. It was the cver seen her piay. The young lady is all her press agents have said In the advance no- tices. While I pulled strongly for | Miss Wills to beat they met abroad, it was casy for me to see the futility of such a hope. Opposed to Lenglen was Mary K. Iirowne, a really great player, yot the French star won as she pleased. Over 12,000 of North Adams | Bond | Left Lnd toe encounter rs Donoln teeedinses Wendell Left Tackle Gnasdow . e salo referee ft Guard and Rtesenbloom. ow Rogers DiMarco Center Humphries Right pa e e v Chimaunk Inter-Fraternity Football (L) Game Is Scheduled { {he most interesting ama 5 this senson will take afternoon at Wal- the Gammas, re of the Alpha roity of the local il trot against a nting Alpha Tota N watched the innova- tion of professional tennis. 1 inclined to twnk that C. €. P promoter, is going to make plenty of money with his troupe, for Leng- len is a great card and gives you a run for your mo Murphy . Morton Right Tackle LAt One o Connelly Skelly € Right End Thompson .... McDonald n Quarterback Hunt Shand sonmon JOE CARR IS HEAD OF THREE PRO LEAGUES National Football, a Hal{back 1 Sturm e Right Halfback Barnikow ... Winchestor FFullback v In the Kin field of hard ta "the first | East \1des Bnoked to <11 Play Ramblers Tomorrow me aaveral East §ide A will Journey tockville Sunday to play the Rockville Ramblers. The team ha put in a hard week of practice expec to come back victorious. McInnis Mentioned as The Ramblers are reputed to be Phllhc& NC\t Lmdcr dnogot b nteledl i atma b deps he state but the East Sides expect Heads American Basketball and Columbus The Assn. Baseball of a athletics ton, 0., Oct, president of the National Prof al Football Association, can Basketball League, Columbus American haseball cluh, hapk vou ofing atl Six years sreup of men sional foothall o league with Carr was A “thank with, and Carr di t it would be time to « cling salosm od upon to He drew no Alary for t year. But after . the league started to grow, and Carr began to devote more and morr 50 |Of his time to its affairs, 16, (P —Joo € and on~ the Amer and th Associatign never turned dowh a foh of managing or di- nties, hest of sorics fs D Pawr game ng A Sides « o nton. 0. a in profes 4 a national its head. It job to begin it. He o hig a trav- vas prevail- ste ni at you up ndgren, onard Sody not want Spitko, A ull Albanese, Mok d accept ar of the Giant the Philli S Two years ago, professional bask- etball backers, eing the success of s ‘toothelIlorkunisaticn oot oin I |a proposition to organize a similiar gue of hacketball teams, of- | tored him' the presidency of it. That, too, has boomed, and last summer when the Columbus baseball team | {was struggling in the throes of the worst slump in Assoclation ory its owners decided to make Carr the GRIDIRON DECISIONS STICK Almost everyt 1l topics of conve liror officials in the returning home a v Fr is ons an n gri nee \d HEAVIEST John CAPTAIN? ("Tiny") Moore is among the largest high Il players in the coun- who is the captain of Elkhart, Kansas, team weighs 309 pounds, s six ' president. vo and one half inches tall and | In 1914, when Carr was president 20 years old. Just now he weighs |of the Ohfo State League of profe pounds, having lost sixteen |sfonal bascba!l teams, it had a rec- pounds while in harvest flelds this |ord for sending players to the ma- or smmer. John requires a size 48 |jors. Billy Southworth of the Cards. r the pants byt even that fits hipt 8o |who clinched the second game of swas the re- tightly fhat none last a whole Bea- [the recent World Series with hj | sen. home;,fiwas one of them. ud he lool foott e Moore @ playc 11 batore it to p normally t was questioned and sev- | feot later the coach aglked th by that time a busin really touched the id T didn’t can’t remenbe off that ball anymore, aponse. era player, vhether Well, T've is ess ma ball Fenl in (rppo.flnz‘ & 1o meet one of the | discern who is carry- | versation will be whethep big league | aA first time I had | Lenglen when | ‘#| coming fast. "PYLE MAY BE ANOTHER TEX RICKARD Manager of Small-Town Movie House Forging Ahead as Professional Sports Promoter i i | | BROWNE | s SUZANNE . . : . LENGLEN . i, S R | Another Tex Rickard! == e Lo et o 2 Conets | aioms neuse”ta. e tsniow | FOUNDER OF BRIDGE: I3 VERSATILE PERFORMER | the-Coin" Pyl the talkative fel-|pehind such celebrated stars as low whose main business is getting [ Grange, Lenglen, Richards, Browne amateur athletes to turn profession- | and so on—not to mention other al in these days when the dollar | glecve—is no small hop in less than sign means considerably more than|a year's time. a trunkload of‘championship ban-| o g while |ners, medals and “'Mt have ¥ou. |jnclined to give The astute Mr. Pyle, as you know. puie the merry | has stepped to !hn front with rapid | |1 rious tones. ferrldru Moreover, he's fneceasing |y, his pace as he goes along. I'u there’s no telling just where top. Less than Lenz Excells at Several Other Games | the multituds was “Collect-the-Coin™ guffaw in loud, 3ut Pyle merely let folks laugh it off and now scems ¢ well on his way o a sports promoter, re luxe, they in soclal circles, s this M. | Sday D ‘Dundec \\ ins Veldlct - wis ob? He| Over Husky Jack Zivic little movie xow york, Oct. 16 (B — Joe Dundee, Baltimore, erweight, was tod a step forward in his campaign for a chance at the title | held by Pete Latzo, of Scranton, Pa. The rugged Dundee won a de- | on after a ten-round bout with k Zivie, of Pittsburgh, at Madi- son Squ; Garden here last Dundee was content to set the pace, the foPmer st: teur doing most of the No knockouts marked Besides His Own Specialty The man who discovered bridge | s a champion in several other sports before he finally became a master of the.cards in his own game, Bridge is the vocation and avoca- tion of Sidney S. Lenz but he has| been a bowling, checker and ping pong champion, and once annexed he tennis title of the Whist league. Golf and poetry even now more fascination for him cards. e obscure | was manager of house. Much in the Headlines Then came the final game of the Western Conference season. It liké- wise was the last college brush for “Red”" Grange, the crimson crack. All season rumors had it Grange would turn pro, It was one of the I main topics up for discnssion in the big Columbus stadium last Novem- ber avhen Ilifnois and Ohio State made ready to finish the campaign. “Red’s” status was to be announced after the contest. It was. ge took the le was C. C. Pyle, first the world at large had ever heard of Mr. Pyle. Since then, the one-time hoss of ‘the little Tili- nois picture theater hes been much lin the headlines. His exploits have kept the busy. Tollowing the signing of Grange, Pyle tossed him into the movies. Grange played the hero in one of the hest collcge films pro- dueed in a long time. Pyle then set to work | pro football organ Titnois town. hold | than The popular American card game, in which Lenz has won 30 trophies and 322 m was born in India, whils he searching for the | origin of the “rope trick.” The latter he found only a myth, but he did ! discover bridge. Whist had been played for gener- ations and was the reigning favor- ite of British army officers stationed in India. It required four players, | however, and frequently there were only three officers of equal rank at o post. A “dummy” hand was de- vised, and thercby grew bridge. Lenz brought the game home with him in 1894, He did not win his first ehampionship until 1209, but since has acquired the International | bridge and whist titles each twelve | times. Simon and Schuster have | published a book on his work. w the cla GOLF ON THE PLAINS The oil ficld and cattle country of Northwest Texas and the Panhandle is perhaps the last section where one would expect to find golf courses. Yet every city of consequence spor at least a nine-hole links. The greens often are of cottonseed. The little town of Post, on the Woest Texas plains, produced the new golf champion of the eighth corps area, Lieutenant C. A. Quall of the Texas tional Guard. His man- That was the gang Three Leagnes, Swimming and, | last | wint | now, | senior. Both teams will be church of | ersfield, | calities | to be held at the New Britain Y. M | team was off | made to take in more localit | fill gaps left by removal of interest jed men. | Phillips of Kensington was made | Thompsonville Sunday to meet the= | Thomsonville | and the Rangers will have to be at | | their best to bring home a victory. | ball. The Rangers will have the fol- | i teo, epds; 2333323333380 2!: SRR N R R R o FANS PACK STATE ARMORY FOR AMATEUR EXHIBITION COUNTY ‘P PLANS [ s v, BASKETBALL LU[IPS‘ : ‘ euts “Dive” on Mohawk A. C. TEa Card. Track Mests This Winter ctball lc limits will first week in Dece ford County Y, M. C. A. Athlctic as sociation, It was decided at a meet- ing of the commissioners in Hartford cvening, and swimming and track meets will also be held during the wi The association fostered | wo b I circuits last year, but | expand these The junior composed and unde; and u will take Johnny Cl both Tocal hoys teur card of the tate Armor 1 th T L both were Thre ent age ies of differ- be started the ber by the Hart- | the tors ir tho required o extra. round to win first honor Clineh did so only at th very appa pular Second W and of a decfsion. e Clinch, Youseman of time in as of any w the decision cordant note s and on | Clinch stru v di M miuds are b than few and perhaps the crowd sax what the did not, but th d there was 1 their part and th occasior the senior k 5 E o get two loops un way during December 6, while the ju- niors will play-oit for the county championship in an elimination tour- | in Hartford. The winners will | tournaments for the state jndge fourth cement as handed Eddie Le ck Flor rtar in Eddie Camp of Hartford. At the end of the third rour of Lewis' seconds was of the opinion the local colored hoy was the er and indicated his disapproval judges decision with a school- boy gestt Lewis would do well to give as well as receive advice, for such uncalled for action on the part of his handler may cost him an carned decision some Comedy in Bout. Tim O'Connor of New Haven and Dan Borselli of Springficld furnished some comedy, mainly as 0O'Connor’s style of figh Borselll decided to wait nor to lead thers wouldn't have been |2 Dblow struck in the entire three rounds. Borselli won, When Abe Bodin, was given the de Anderson of New disapproved. Anderson had nothing but a healthy sock and a desire to fight, while Bodine had both quali- ties and some science to boot, Anderson's aggressiveness and some heavy blows placed by him during | the first three rounds won him an opportunity to try for a knockout in the fourth. He was plainly a beat- | en man, but his gameness made him decided favorite with the fans, Fritz Adamson, billed as welter- weight champion of the state, lost Yo Bill Lieberman Spr | Lieberman's irnv from the Johnny Shive of Hartford got oft to a fast start but Johnny Andrews of New Haven beat him to it as a result of his superior in-fightin, | Andrews was the winner. Hits Yloor 10 Times Ray Hall of Hartford Johnny Brennan of the canvas exactly 10 times in the first round and on the last down- ward trip the birdies began to chirp sweetly as Brennan's thoughts went ailing upward and onward over olling hills, peaceful valleys and | babbling brooks. William Kozzmot and Eddie Moz- {er, both of Hartford, were in the ring less than a minute when Kozz- | mot did an Annette Kellerman, placing his chin on his elbow and {waving the referee off. Referes Joo Wirst consulted with the judges and it was decided that Kozzmot was not entitled to the customary loser's prize, so Williams received nothing more than a ‘rubdown for his ef- forts. Dan dropped Hartford bout and tries in being sol various lragues it from the various Y" and affiliated groups all over | the county. Last year Wapping won | the unlimited tifle, and Plainville present- South | have gu the cd again this winter, while New Britain will ams in the other two Kensington will probably be in ail three, and entries are expected from | Simsbury, Granby, Collinsville, Man- chester, Hartford, Windsor, Weth Broad Brook and other lo- Another meeting will be | arly next month to close out agues and prepare rules and schedules. A swimming meet will be held in Manchester on Saturday, December | 4, to determine who shall represent the county in the state meet at Tor- rington of the 1ith. A track meet r O'Con- of Hartford fion over Charics Taven the crowd C. A. is also being planned and ar- rangements arc now being made for iat purpose. The East Glastonbury ally declared the win- ner @f the baseball league; it won eight of the nine games played. A reorganization of the board was ies’and K. E. Parker of New Drit elected secretary of the as- on, while Rev. Vernon ain socia of superiority start. a W district deputy commissioner. Rangers to Play in Thompsonville Sunday | The Rangers will travel to Grays. The Grays | have a strong team including se planted al former Springficld . college men, Waterbury on The Rangers have been strengthen- ed with the signing up of §. Sobieck former Falcon tackle. The Rangers | pin their hopes on Captain Ruppel, Casperini and Keyeski to carry the lowing lineup: Ellidtt, Sobieck, G. Argosy, tackles; tasio, guards; J. Argosy, Kol centers; Captaln Ruppel, prow, Crane, Keyeski, backfield. Practite will be held morning at St. Mary's field. bus will leave the club rooms 1 o'clock. A system of identification by the | teoth, faid to be as accurate as the | fingerprint method, is being worked out by the navy department. Lucas, Mat- Ruppel, M. Negrolla, F. Anes- Sunday o at MecCarthy of the tomgh Joe three times d was an easy Springfield Bard of ng their winner. somewhat like that of the mafor league baseball circuits. It's going | And Then She TOOk Up Golf big | | Next Pyle startied the world by | enticing the famous Suzanne Leng- | len, premier woman tennis “player of the nuniverse, into leaving the amateur ranks. But Mr. Pyle must have ‘more than one pro racquet | wielder, 80 he promptly signed Mary K. Browne, former American cham- | pion, and still one of the outstanding | players in this country. Pyl still wasn't satisfied, so he buzzed around a bit more until today o has a real tennis profeszional troupe composed of Lengien. | Browne, Vincent Richards, Howard Kins Paul Feret and Harvey Snodgrass. Pyle didn’t get Snodgrass from amateur {old, by the way. Har- having turned pre about a go. The othors were all simon- | pures. however. This troup ONCE SHE WAS A HOME LOVING LITTLE WIEE a will start a tont the country, all the principal towns. Tt should draw well On the opening night n Mad uare Gardem some 15,000 were on hand. Who would ventured ghe prediction six- | that such a turnout an indoor tennis coon makir ison fans have months ago wonid attend match? Nor it that all. Now tb ing Mr. Pyle is planning an open net tournament in which players from all over the world can compete for prizes totaling from $ to $50,000, the affalr to be staged | cither fn New York or Los Angeles some time next February. Tex Started in 1006 Another Tex Rickard? Maybe so. ‘“lt‘l((lt‘ of course, has a big sta (1 on Pyle. Tex first ped to f me | |as a prdmoter in 1906, when he sta od the memorable Nelson-Gans 42- » | round lightweight championship b tle at Goldfield, Nev. Since then he |has put on virtually all the big fistic frays, his latest and most suc- cesaful being the Tunney-Dempsey | jamboree at Philly, which drew about 130,000 people. Pyle is some 20 years behind “Take-a-Chance” Tex. But he's From manager of a ONE HOUR WELL- I'M OFF 1\ To Tre JorLY OLD/ + far-see- LiNKs - STAYED HOME AND DARNED THE SOCKS I'VE BEEN HoME WAITING FOR By BRIGGS GOT THE CHILDREN OFF To ScHooL On TIME WELL | MADE A SNAPPY You AnD JASPER ABilanay BETTER GO OUT To DINNER Jim I'™m Too TIRED To GET UP